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CAR GUABDOB FENDER. No. 552,639. Patented Jan. 7, 1896.

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GAR GUARD 0R FENDER.

` No. 552,639. Patented Jan. '7, 1896.

E 'l MW M K/a UNITED STATES i APATENT OFFICE..

JOI'IN GIBBONS, OF WEST TROY, NEV YORK, ASSIGNOR OF T\VOTHIRDS TO FAYETTE B. DURANT YAND LUI-IR EGGERS, JR., OF SAME PLACE.

CAR GUARD OR FENDER.

`SPECIlICAION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,639, dated January 7, 1896.

Application flied May 16,1895. serial no. 549,475. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it knownthat I, JOHN GIBBONS, of the village of Vest Troy, county of Albany, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oar-Fenders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to car fenders or guards and certain improvements in their construction,- having for their, object the better adaptation of this class of devices to the uses for which they are designed.

My improvements consist (as will be more fully detailed hereinafter in connection with their illustration) in constructing the fender" to have a series of independentlyacting spring-bars, each provided at its upper end with a spring connecting tangentally with a beam, and having its depending part at its upper end tangentially connecting with the other end of the spring, and the beam to which the springs of the bars are connected being adjustably hung upon hooks.

Accompanying this specification, to form a part of it, there are two plates of drawings containing seven iigures with the same designation of parts by letter reference used in all of them.

Of the illustrations, Figure l is a side ele- Vation of a part of a car with my .improved guard applied thereto, and with its fenderbars shown as engaged with an object. Fig. 2 is a View of the apparatus shown as applied to the end of a car. Fig. 3 is another side elevation of a part of a car with my improved fender or guard shown as applied thereto. Fig. 4 is a perspective of the fenderbeam with one of the spring-arms shown as applied thereto. Fig. 5 shows one of the spring-bars illustratedv as detached. Fig. G is an end view of the truclcbeam to which the fender-beam connects by means of a bracket attached to the truck-beam, with the fender-beam shown in cross-section and the other parts in elevation, and Fig. 7 shows in perspective,as detached from the truck-beam, one of the brackets by which the fender-beam is connected thereto.

The several parts of the apparatus thus illustrated are designated by letter reference, and the function of the parts is described as follows:

The letters C designate a part of a street* car, and P its end platform.

The letters D designate the side bars of the pedestal-frame, and S S springs arranged between the car bottomand truck.

The letter J designates a leg depending from the truck at each side, and e B a bracket adapted to attach to the depending leg J, said brackets preferably having each a rectangu* lar side and end face, by which it will attach to the depending leg J, there being one of these brackets at each side of the car at its ends.

The letter I-I designate a hook formed on the outer face of each'of the brackets.

The letters B2 designate the fenderbeam, having at each o f its ends an eye E, whereby it may hook onto the hook H of each of the brackets B.

The letters I designate the spring-bars of the fender, each of which has formed integrally at its upper end the coil-spring N, with its tangent-form end e2, adapted to connect lat c3 with the fender-beam B2.

in line with their upper ends, and at their lower depending ends they are each bent rear wardly to form a foot f.

As thus constructed and arranged the fender can be removed from the car by unhooking the beam B2 from off the hook H. Each of the fender depending bars I acts inde pendently of the others, and in engaging with .an object or the body of a person in front of the car, elastically, they do so with their united engagement adapting itself to the form of the body with which they come in contact, and by this construction their engagement with the body of a person who has fallen in front of the car, when moving, is not only an IOO elastie engagement, but the bars in their eontact adapt their engagement to the form of the body, so as to piek up the latter. Then the fender as the rear end of a ear is passing over the ground and some obstruetion intervenes, eaused by any irregularity of the pavement or ground, then the fender-bar by its hinged eonneetion on the hook H, admits of the passage of the fender over the irregularity by swinging enough rearwardly to ride over it.

Having' thus deseribed my invention, what I Claim, and desire to seeure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a ear-guard or fender, the combination with a fender-beam making` a hooked eonneetion with a bar depending` from the ear truel, at eaeh side of the latter, said fenderbealn being provided with a rod projecting` therefrom, and eonneeted thereto by lugs, oi' downwardly and frontwardly Curved fenderbars, eaeh provided with and eonneeted at its upper end tangentially to a coil-spring, with the inner end of the latter eonneeting` taugentially with said fender-bar, substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

2. rlhe Combination with the fender-beam B2, provided with the rod R, and having an eye E, at eaeh of its ends, of the brackets B,

3, eaeh connected to a bar dependin` from the ear truek at eaeh side of the ear, and eaeh provided with ahook II; the depending bars I, eaeh made with the eurve K, and integrally made with a Coil-spring` N, arranged on said rod R, and connected to said fender-bar, oonstrueted and arranged to operate substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 23d day of April, 1895, and in the presence of the two witnesses whose names are hereto written.

JOHN GIBBONS. Witnesses:

GEO. M. PAYFER, W. E. HAGAN. 

